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Posted: June 24, 2010

Phenom-World BV and Struers A/S Announce Partnership

(Nanowerk News) Phenom-World BV and Struers A/S announce the start of a new partnership making Struers the exclusive distributor for the Phenom Desktop SEM (scanning electron microscope) in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The synergy between the Phenom-World and Struers products and the internal use of Phenom-World products within the Struers company was the base for this partnership. Struers is the developer and producer of semi-automatic and automatic sample preparation equipment and consumables for laboratories of any size within industrial quality inspection and research.

The Phenom is an automated desktop SEM, with its achievement of 24,000X magnification, superior image quality, ease of use, compact size and affordability, make it the perfect complement to Struers product portfolio within materialography. The Phenom provides a powerful imaging solution in just a few seconds to lab technicians and researchers who require an imaging system that reaches beyond the range of the light microscope.

With the addition of the Phenom Desktop SEM, Struers can now offer its customers a complete range of solutions from sample preparation to scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis.

About Struers A/S

Struers is the world's leading supplier of materialographic preparation equipment and consumables, hardness testers and imaging software. The company has affiliates in 19 countries and has more than 40% of the world market.
For more information: www.struers.com

Located in high-tech region of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Phenom-World is well positioned to press ahead with product innovations.

With sales representatives in more than 30 countries around the world, Phenom-World has a strong global presence to address the desktop scanning electron microscopy market. Phenom-World BV is a joint venture of the NTS Group (system supplier to high-tech industries), Sioux (a supplier of trend-setting services and products for embedded systems, medical systems and remote solutions), and FEI (the premier provider of high end electron and ion-beam microscopes).